In 1945 the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency was established and given direct responsibility for Operation Paperclip. The program recruited former
Nazi scientists,[18] some of whom had been identified and prosecuted as war criminals during the Nuremberg Trials.[19] Several secret U.S. government projects grew out of Operation Paperclip.[citation needed] These projects included Project CHATTER (established
1947), and Project BLUEBIRD (established 1950), which was renamed Project ARTICHOKE in 1951. Their purpose was to study mind control, interrogation,
behavior modification and related topics.

The project's intentionally obscure CIA cryptonym is made up of the digraph MK, meaning that the project was sponsored by the agency's Technical
Services Staff, followed by the word Ultra (which had previously been used to designate the most secret classification of World War II intelligence).

Project ARTICHOKE (also referred to as Operation ARTICHOKE) was a CIA project that researched interrogation methods and arose from Project
BLUEBIRD on August 20, 1951, run by the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence.[1] A memorandum by Richard Helms to CIA director Allen Welsh Dulles
indicated Artichoke became Project MKULTRA on April 13, 1953

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the use of '___' for MKU purposes. There's a period where a mind under the influence of it becomes impressionable
in a way that only happens naturally just after child birth. That's some of what Timothy Leary was studying and had written about. Great reads.

It is worth pointing out that not all children who suffer abuse, wind up emotionless, mechanical avatars of death and misery. Stigmatising people
based on their experiences is no more sensible than making judgements about people based on the colour of their skin, or the faith they claim to hold.

Oh, rare does not even begin to cover it. I would think it would be absolutely impossible for a person to come out of such a situation without some
baggage of some sort. However, that baggage does not equate to a total lack of human conscience, moral conviction, or empathy in anything like the
majority of cases. Psychopathy is relatively rare, even amongst the abused, just not as rare as amongst those who have not been.

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